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Jo Nesbø

Dec 7, 2025
28 mins

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Presenter James Crawford speaks to bestselling crime writer and Norwegian novelist Jo Nesbø about his book, Wolf Hour - a standalone thriller set in Minneapolis, where a dysfunctional detective, Bob Oz, investigates the attempted murder of a crooked gun dealer. The three books that inspired Jo while writing Wolf Hour were: Hunger by Knut Hamsun (1890), The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson (1952), and American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis (1991).

Producers: Rachael O’Neill & Hayley Jarvis Editor: Gillian Wheelan This was a BBC Audio Scotland production.

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